Wildflowers yield floor to cactus blooms

Yellows, whites and other hues still decorate the desert. However, the wildflowers have yielded the desert floor to other plants.

Rather than hillsides of showy brittle brush, now the yellow is from mesquite and palo verde trees.  And small flowers have made way for the whites of saguaro flowers and yellows of prickly pear and pinks of other cacti.

Prickly pear cactus, blooming in my back yard in Ajo.

Blossoms decorate palo verde trees in yards and in the wild. Then the blossoms decorate yards and parking lots and vehicles and patios and pools. "Yellow snow" has an all unique meaning for desert dwellers. Even bugs and bees enjoy the trees' blooms.

Springtime in the Desert

Woo-hoo. It's springtime in the desert.

Walking and snapping photos of all the pretty flowers was a great way to spend a morning in the Sonoran Desert.



Golden poppies wait for the desert to warm before opening to the sun.



Chickory

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